Wednesday’s presentations were so cool.
The creative theory camp stuff was awesome in itself, but I was surprised by how much I dug the tech tools. I’m think I’m what you’d call a “Late Adopter” who needs to be more or less forced into trying new technology (examples: still using a paper planner/agenda for everything in my life, still having an iPhone 4–which I was forced to get because the flip phones required Pay-as-You-Go, etc.), but after our class I’m out to try several of those. I’d tried Evernote before and written it off, but realized on Weds. how clutch it is for getting all my recipes in one place (something I’ve NEVER been able to figure out, since so many are online.) The only thing that scares me about all this tech is accessibility of my info–isn’t all of this totally browsable and analyze-able by these people? Is that bad? I have this deep, perpetual fear of putting too much stuff on the Internet, so that’s partly why I haven’t used a lot of this stuff. Probably unrealistic? Curious how other people feel about this.
Another thing I kept mulling over was the whole DragonDictate concept in relation to rhetoric and writing. It was a weird revelation to find that I bet I would write SO differently if I was talking out loud. My written self is so much more thought-out and personal in many ways… I often feel like I’m stuck at surface-level stuff when I talk out loud, and I wonder if that would translate to my writing if I used Dragon. Probably going to test that out. Also, I’m way funnier in writing (seriously, I confirmed this with several close friends.) The little humor skill I possess would probably go down the tubes if I was orating my jokes. Goodbye witty and social emails.
Also, what happens if you laugh when you’re using Dragon? Does it write LOL or hahaha or ROFLcopter? Thousands of people would be exposed for fake laughing if you could only write “haha”s when you were truly “haha”ing.
Thanks for the sweet prezzos, guys!
I liked a lot of them, too, Natalie. Especially Dragon. It was noteworthy to me that Anthony uses it to transcribe his handwritten work. I spend far too much time editing as I write because it’s so easy on a word processor. I wonder if my own writing would go more quickly if I hand wrote my drafts.